Film Review – Return to Silent Hill

In 2006, co-writer/director Christophe Gans took his fandom of the video game “Silent Hill” and attempted to translate the console event to the big screen. The film wasn’t impressive, but it did deliver some compellingly ghoulish visuals while it tried to find drama in an exploratory gaming experience. Gans wasn’t around for the 2012 sequel, “Silent Hill: Revelation,” which was a disaster. Perhaps emboldened to right a perceived wrong, Gans stages a comeback for “Return to Silent Hill,” looking to master a reboot of the series, taking primary inspiration from the “Silent Hill 2” video game. Gans (who was last seen with 2014’s “Beauty and the Beast”) seems primed to deliver a refreshed nightmare experience with the sequel, but clunkiness, pokiness, and limited thespian might work to bring down the picture. The helmer hopes to conjure a horror show with some heart, but all “Return to Silent Hill” delivers is a good reason to play the game instead. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com